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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013861345ISBN 13: 9781013861345
Librería: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: New.
Publicado por Legare Street Press 2021-09-09, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013861345ISBN 13: 9781013861345
Librería: Chiron Media, Wallingford, Reino Unido
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Paperback. Condición: New.
Publicado por Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Boston, 1881
Librería: Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hard Cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. QUITE RARE POETRY BOOK BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN WOMAN First edition. 3-1/2 x 5-3/8 inches. iv, (2), [3]-317pp. Worn original green cloth with embossed design and gilt logos and type on front and spine. Previous owners names and dates on front endpaper. Good condition. A collection of poetry, Under the Olive, which included the poem "Not by will, and not in striving": Published anonymously, this volume contains 19 verses written in classical meter on subjects such as Achilles, Sophocles, and Pandora. The book was well received. Harriet Beecher Stowe, a close friend of Fields, was happy for the book's reception, but she thought that Fields' charity work had a "higher beauty." Fields's first collection of poems, Under the Olive. (1881), became available near the end of 1880. In Annie Adams Fields (2002), Rita Gollin notes that Fields's Under the Olive (Copyright 1881) appeared in November of 1880 (p. 202) Annie Adams Fields was a poet, philanthropist and social reformer, who wrote dozens of biographies of famous writers who were also her friends. She founded innovative charities to assist the poor residents of Boston and campaigned for the rights of women, particularly the right to vote and to earn a medical degree. She produced two books of her own poetry, Under the Olive (1880) and The Singing Shepherd and Other Poems (1895)James Thomas Fields (1817-81) Massachusetts publisher. Ann ("Annie") West Adams Fields (1834-1915), his second wife (married 15 November 1854). Annie is credited with helping Fields recruit such authors as Emma Lazarus, Sarah Orne Jewett, Horatio Alger, and Celia Thaxter. The dinners and literary salons they hosted in their Charles Street home became a fixture of Boston society. "I stood as much in awe of him as his jovial soul would let me," William Dean Howells wrote two decades after Fields died. "He gave aesthetic character to the house of Ticknor & Fields" (Literary Friends and Acquaintances, New York, 1900, p. 40).
Año de publicación: 1893
Librería: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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unbound. A small archive consisting of six items including five handwritten letters -- four sent to Mary Bolger and one sent to Lillian Munger (with the envelope addressed to Sarah Orne Jewett). Descriptions are as follows: Letter No. 1: 1 page, 5 x 4 inches, 148 Charles Street, written to Lillian [Munger], no date, but the handwritten envelope addressed to "Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, care of Mrs. James T. Fields, Charles St." is postmarked December 4, 1889, in large part: "I was greatly interested in the story and real success of the work for woman and children. It is a very uncommon result brought about by thoughtful and careful personal desire. I am very glad for you all. It must be a great comfort to think of it when you and Miss Parkman lie down to rest." Letter No. 2: 1 page, 4.5 x 3 inches, Boston, January 19, 1893. Written on the back of a one-cent postal card to Mary Bolger, in part: ".in order to get the white silk for you I discovered that one dress (the handsome one of white crepe) will be all I shall require this season. I will send.or your inspection whenever you wish it." Letter No. 3: 1 page, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, Boston, April 23, 1895. Written on the back of a one-cent postal card to Mary Bolger, in part: ".Will you kindly let me have my cape and dress shirt . and can you surely come on the 29th. I go away that week and it is my last chance." Letter No. 4: 3 pages (front and back) each measuring 4.5 x 3.5 inches, no place, May 3, 1893, small tear along the center fold, written to Mary Bolger, in part: ".I am delighted with my silk dress. You have made it better than new. I write to say that on Monday we are busy and unable to attend to our clothes." Letter No. 5: 1 page, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, no place, no date, circa 1893, written to Mary Bolger, in part: "Will you please give my niece the two dollars added to the amount of your bill to buy a Christmas present for herself and will you thank her for the knives? I like my dresses very much indeed." As most historians and researchers agree, Annie Adams Fields was a giving person who devoted much of her life to charitable causes. All items are in very good condition. American author and social reformer who was influential in encouraging the careers of up-and-coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus. She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she compiled. Her closest friend was Sarah Orne Jewett, a novelist and story writer with whom she lived for quite some time. Their closest friends included Cather, Dickens, Kipling, Tennyson, Twain, Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne, Stowe, Trollope, and the Brownings. In keeping with her philanthropist ideals, Adams donated her complete estate to charity.